The centralizer of an endomorphism over an arbitrary field

DOI10.1016/J.LAA.2020.01.013MaRDI QIDQ2174522zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors David Mingueza, M. Eulalia Montoro, A. Roca

Publication date 21 April 2020

Published in Linear Algebra and its Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.06198

zbMATH Keywords

centralizercompanion matricesgeneralized Jordan canonical formgeneralized Weyr canonical formnonseparable polynomials

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Canonical forms, reductions, classification (15A21) Endomorphism rings; matrix rings (16S50)

Abstract: The centralizer of an endomorphism of a finite dimensional vector space is known when the endomorphism is nonderogatory or when its minimal polynomial splits over the field. It is also known for the real Jordan canonical form. In this paper we characterize the centralizer of endomorphisms over arbitrary fields for whatever minimal polynomial, and compute its dimension. The result is obtained via generalized Jordan canonical forms (for separable and non separable minimal polynomials). In addition, we also obtain the corresponding generalized Weyr canonical forms and the structure of its centralizers, which in turn allows us to compute the determinant of its elements.

Review text

The aim of this work is the determination of the centralizer of an endomorphism of a finite-dimensional vector space, that is, of a square matrix over an arbitrary field, together with its dimension. The centralizer of a square matrix \(A\) over a field is by definition a subalgebra of all matrices commuting with \(A\). Therefore, the centralizer of \(A\) is a good associated structure, an important invariant of the matrix \(A\). However, the precise description of the centralizer of a matrix \(A\) over an arbitrary field is, in general, not a simple task. In this article, the authors fulfill the computation of the centralizer of a matrix using its different canonical forms, like companion matrices, generalized Jordan forms and also generalized Weyr forms in certain cases. Namely, the particular cases when the minimal polynomial is either separable, for example over a perfect field, or a power of an irreducible polynomial, are discussed in the last two sections with applications.

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